# Cost Controls Specialist

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Dallas, TX
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a Cost Controls Specialist to join their Project Controls team supporting Power & Energy programs, including transmission line and substation capital projects.

The successful candidate will develop, maintain, and monitor project cost control processes for transmission line, substation, and related Power & Energy projects. They will prepare and maintain project budgets, forecasts, cash flows, cost reports, accruals, commitments, and financial projections to support accurate project performance tracking.

Key responsibilities include:

- Tracking actual costs, commitments, contingency, change orders, invoices, and cost coding to support timely and reliable project cost management.

- Performing cost variance analysis, trend analysis, and earned value management support, identifying cost risks and recommending corrective actions to project leadership.

- Using cost management and PMIS platforms such as EcoSys, Procore, Oracle, e-Builder, or similar systems to manage budgets, forecasts, commitments, change orders, invoices, and cost reports.

- Producing regular cost reports, budget variance summaries, forecast updates, and executive-level financial dashboards that clearly communicate project cost status, risks, and required decisions.

- Supporting change management, contractor progress tracking, invoice review, contingency management, and project close-out reporting from a cost controls perspective.

The ideal candidate will have:

- A bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.

- 7+ years of experience in cost controls, project controls, finance, or related functions on capital projects.

- Hands-on experience with forecasting, budget tracking, variance analysis, cost reporting, cash flow tracking, commitments, accruals, and change control.

- Experience with cost management, ERP, and PMIS tools such as EcoSys, Procore, Oracle, e-Builder, Autodesk Construction Cloud, or similar platforms.

- Working knowledge of earned value management (EVM), cost forecasting, budget baselines, cost coding structures, trend analysis, and project financial controls.

- Strong analytical, communication, and coordination skills, with the ability to translate cost data into clear updates for project teams, finance partners, contractors, clients, and leadership.

## Skills

### Required
- cost controls
- project controls
- forecasting
- budget tracking
- variance analysis
- cost reporting
- earned value management
- cost management
- ERP
- PMIS

### Nice to have
- Power & Energy industry
- transmission
- substation
- infrastructure programs

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